Södra to invest more than SEK 100 million ($12.5 million) in biofuel production

Södra will invest more than SEK 100 million ($12.5 million) in the
production of biomethanol, a sustainable fuel from forest raw material. The
project will commence in autumn 2017 and is scheduled to be ready for operation
by spring 2019, as the
company says in the press release received by Lesprom Network.

The aim is
to produce 5,000 tonnes of biomethanol per year at the new facility to be
situated at Södra’s pulp mill at Mönsterås. The long-term aim is to further
increase production for passenger, truck and ship transport.

The
biomethanol will be made from the crude methanol produced by the manufacturing
process at Södra’s pulp mill. It will be part of the circular process that
already exists at Södra’s mills, in which all parts of the forest raw material
are used for the best possible effect. The first delivery will reach the market
in spring 2019.